Thursday, March 31, 2011
This is how The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction looked when it began in 1949 with the Bill Stone cover illustration and the evocative, flowing calligraphic logo by Mercury Publications' art director George Salter (1897-1967).
Co-editor Anthony Boucher (1911-1968) used as a pseudonym, H.H. Holmes, the name of a 19th-century serial killer. Oliver Onions (1873-1961) wrote the classic unforgettable psychological terror story, "The Beckoning Fair One", which can be read here.
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Labels: boucher, fantasy, george salter, oliver onions
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Herman W. Mudgett was Holmes's real name, as well as another of Boucher's pseudonyms. Around the time of the Chicago Exposition in 1893, Mudgett -- as in a modern slasher film -- opened a hotel in that city specifically to carry out his murders.
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